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The nearby Desert View Trail leads to the spot where many people witnessed the nuclear explosions. From Las Vegas in the south to Mercury and the Nuclear Test Site in the north, many sites share the incredible vista. On the steep mountainside, covered by Pinon pine, camp sites in this campground have the most panoramic views in the SMNRA. Some of these trees might be as old as 5,000 years!Ībout halfway between these canyons, on Forest Route 158, is Hilltop Campground. Along this trail, hikers find ancient bristlecone trees, battered by cold temperatures and fierce wind. The hiking in this area is limited to the spectacular 6.1-mile Bristlecone Trail. McWilliams offers good privacy and views of Mummy Mountain (it really does look like a white, reclining mummy). Jeffery pine and steep slopes give these campgrounds a very different feel and attest to this Canyon's cooler temperatures. McWilliams and Lee Canyon's campgrounds snuggle against the SMNRA's ski area. Fletcher View has the added feature of electric hook-ups at each site. On the banks of a dry wash, campgrounds are level with nicely shaded and spacious camp sites. View campground and many trails meandering around the area. Kyle Canyon, with shear rock walls ending at Cathedral Rock, has Fletcher Although in the same mountain range, these canyons are very different and their campgrounds reflect that difference. There are basically two clusters of campgrounds in the SMNRA - one in Lee Canyon and the other in Kyle Canyon. Nor, can one guess, at this distance, what a relaxing haven will be found at the SMNRA's campgrounds or on the outstanding hiking trails so near the fast-paced life of this glittering city. This isolated range has numerous species of plants and animals found nowhere else. From the highway there is little to suggest the amazing geological and biological diversity found on those rugged heights. 95, the massive Spring Mountains Range seems to fill the horizon. Just north of Las Vegas, NV is the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area (SMNRA), a haven for car, tent, recreational vehicle (RV) and motorhome camping enthusiasts. But therein lies one of its secrets - the Toiyabe National Forest can be most welcoming. It takes an adventurous spirit to turn off a well-paved surface onto a rough native soil roadway to explore a seemingly inhospitable area. Most of the highways in Nevada go around, not over or through, these ranges keeping Toiyabe's delightful wonders hidden. From its towering mountain ranges to rolling sagebrush plains, visitors to the Toiyabe find there is far more to this Forest than first meets the eye. This is unfortunate because the Toiyabe National Forest, with its wide variation of terrain and environments, has many delightful surprises. People come to Nevada for a variety of reasons but discovering the delights found in the Toiyabe National Forest is not often one of them.
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The Forest is comprised of 2,572,463 acres and hasĪbout 54 developed campgrounds of which 25 meet the selection Located in central, western and southern Nevada and east centralĬalifornia. National Forest) is divided into several sections which are The Toiyabe (toy-ya-be) National Forest (of the Humboldt-Toiyabe